BEFORE WRITING HER book of reflections on Ordinary Time, Amy Peeler said she “dreaded” this liturgical season. “[As someone] fed by excitement and change, this season seemed to offer little of either,” she writes. Fortunately, instead of asking Peeler to write about Advent or Lent for IVP’s Fullness of Time book series, editor Esau McCaulley assigned Peeler the longest, most often overlooked liturgical season.
I didn’t grow up in a church that utilized liturgy beyond the occasional recitation of the Apostles’ Creed, so perhaps I fit squarely in IVP’s target demographic for the series. “Christians of all traditions are finding a renewed appreciation for the church year,” McCaulley writes in the series preface. The goal of these books, he continues, is to teach Christians “how the church is forming them in the likeness of Christ through the church calendar.”
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